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Latest conference program now available

The program for the 2015 Shelter conference, Housing wellbeing and the city, is now available. Download it here. The conference is on Thursday 23 April at the NSW Teachers Federation.

It's now time to register. More information & registration details are available here.

Shelter releases it's 10 key issues for NSW elections 2015

Shelter has released its summary of the 10 key housing issues for the election. This election is time for the parties to genuinely face the problem of unaffordable housing - particularly rental housing - and the deepening inequality and hardship this is causing.

Registrations now open for the 2015 Housing Economics for Non-Economists

Once again it's time for the popular Shelter lecture series, Housing Economics for Non-Economists. This year's series, presented by four distinguished academics in an accessible form, will be held over 4 weeks starting on Monday, 2 March, 2015. The full information and registration details can be found here.

New report for Shelter shows the cost to government of increasing social housing supply

This report, The cost of increasing social and affordable housing supply in New South Wales, prepared for Shelter by Sphere company, explores the crucial question of how we can increase the supply of social housing to help fill the alarming supply gap and take pressure off social housing waiting lists. It models the subsidy cost of different levels of supply, under a number of different scenarios. It makes clear that, with the right settings, social housing supply can be increased cost effectively.